Swiss and Romanian Courts Convict and Sentence Steinmetz to 5 Years for Corruption

On January 22, 2021, a Geneva court found Beny Steinmez guilty of bribing a public official to obtain an iron-ore mine in Guinea worth billions of dollars. The prior month, Romania’s Supreme Court overturned a lower court’s decision in June 2019 and found him guilty of defrauding the Romanian government.